brushed

Example Sentences

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While the episode could be brushed off as an embarrasing error, it was an unwelcome distraction a month before her second Budget.

From BBC

Republican lawmakers in Kansas have brushed aside the criticism.

From Seattle Times

After we blew up our air mattress and setting up two stools as makeshift side tables, I brushed my teeth over a trash can to avoid walking alone through the dark bookstore to a bathroom .

From Los Angeles Times

The victim who was standing recalled feeling pain in her thigh, saw she had been shot and brushed a copper jacket from a bullet off her leg.

From Seattle Times

Judge Terry Means also chided his Indiana counterpart, Judge William Lawrence, for tossing Webster’s death sentence, saying Lawrence had “brushed aside” jurors’ finding, including that most rejected Webster’s intellectual disability claims.

From Washington Times